• WKU has won 12 of its last 13 home openers and is 80-18 all-time in the season’s first home game. The Hilltoppers have won three straight season openers after dropping the previous three.

• The Hilltoppers have won 14 straight nonconference home games dating back to a loss to fourth-ranked Louisville on Dec. 20, 2014.

• WKU is 60-18 (.769) at E.A. Diddle Arena over the last five seasons after going 27-17 (.614) in the three seasons prior. The Hilltoppers are 584-166 all-time at Diddle Arena for a .779 winning percentage.

• WKU has made at least one 3-pointer in 938 consecutive games, dating back to March 15, 1987. The 3-point shot was instituted prior to the 1986-87 season.

• The Hilltoppers had six players averaging in double figures scoring through three exhibition wins, led by freshman guard Taveion Hollingsworth’s 20 points per game. Hollingsworth shot 71.4 percent overall.

• WKU scored 109 points in its exhibition win over Cumberland, its most points in any exhibition or regular-season game since scoring 110 against Hungarian team Atomeromu Se on Nov. 12, 2000.

• The Hilltoppers outscored their opponents by an average of 93-60 in their exhibition wins after winning both preseason tune-ups by eight or fewer points a year ago. They also outscored their final two exhibition opponents by a combined 128-46 in the paint this preseason.

• WKU grabbed 38 steals in three exhibition victories. The program never recorded more than nine steals in any regular-season game last year.

• Taveion Hollingsworth snagged seven steals in the win over Campbellsville. If the game had counted, it would’ve been the most steals in a game by a Hilltopper since Derek Robinson’s seven on Dec. 16, 2000.

• Senior guard Darius Thompson had 26 assists with just seven turnovers in three exhibitions. Including WKU’s three exhibitions in Costa Rica in August, Thompson had 46 assists against 11 turnovers.

• Justin Johnson currently ranks seventh on WKU’s all-time list for career field goal percentage at 55.3 percent. He’s less than a percentage point from fifth place.

• Justin Johnson needs 302 rebounds – the exact amount he grabbed as a junior – to reach 1,000 for his career. That would make him just the fifth player in WKU history with 1,000 career points and 1,000 rebounds, joining Tom Marshall, Art Spoelstra, Ralph Crosthwaite and Jim McDaniels, the last to accomplish the feat in 1971.